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Malaysia, Singapore

o Founding business and scientific advisory to the company o Set up Clinical Genomics Facilities for Oncology Diagnostics.o Established Consumer genetic testings (oncology, pharmacogenomics and chronic health diseases) for healthy individuals to drive behaviour changes for better well-being.Achievements:o Key team member in successful seed and pre series fund raising.o Providing advisory in setting up clinical lab for genomics oncology diagnostics.o Provided business advisory to establish a strategic and unique public-private collaboration with University of Malaya to provide affordable genomics oncology clinical diagnostics solutions. o Provided scientific expertise in establishing collaborations with pharma in companion diagnostics programmes, clinical trials and national level cervical cancer screening project in Malaysia.o Established strategic partnerships with MNCs, regional hospitals, government agencies, digital healthcare platform companies, universities, pharma companies and insurance companies. o Providing advisory to the company to obtain internationally recognised CAP (College for American Pathologists) and ISO15189 accreditation for clinical diagnostics lab testings.

Singapore

Providing industry advisory to Design Factory through adopting Design Thinking, a user-centric model to support industry partners through collaborative innovation projects.

Singapore

Founding advisor in structuring one of its kind in the market in genomics profiling-linked insurance product development preposition. Provide scientific advisory to next-generation predictive digital health engagement platform that delivers effective, evidence-based interventions to empower people with live happier and healthier lives.

Singapore

Head of Business & Industry Development for A*Star Infectious Diseases Lab (ID Labs).- Oversee the establishment of strategic collaboration partnerships with hospitals and industry partners. - Value creation in bringing innovations from "lab to market".Achievements:- Overall lead coordinator for national level IAF-PP research programme on mRNA vaccines, an initiative which involved multi research institutes across A*STAR, NTU and MNCs. - Co-lead in strategic programme in developing next-generation diagnostics.

Singapore

Roles and Responsibilities:- Corporate role in Technology, Innovation and Enterprise division.- Establish strategic partnerships with industry partners for applied research and innovations in healthcare, chemical engineering and food technology.Achievements:1. Lead in setting up the Technology Innovation Centres governance and operation framework at corporate level.2. Lead in establishing and executed healthcare value ecosystem framework at SIT level, which involved setting up strategic “lab to market” ecosystem partnerships with hospital clusters and accelerators.3. Key Lead in establishing entrepreneurship framework in SIT and establish networks with government agencies and venture capitalists for SIT spin offs and startups.4. Team member in securing more than $18mil funding from government agency to set up Food Innovation Centre to drive innovations in pilot food manufacturing and food safety & security.5. Key team member in strategic planning to set up a Design Thinking centre with rapid prototyping facilities to assist start-ups to increase commercialization potential.

Singapore Polytechnic

o Lead in strategising healthcare innovations at corporate level. Areas of focus areas include 1) development of new clinical diagnostics methods for diseases using data analytics and machine learning, 2) chrononutrition and chronoexercise for diabetes health management. o Establish strategic partnerships with industry partnerso Overall in charge of the daily operations, ensuring and improving operational systems and processes, yearly budget planning, maintenance of biosafety facilities. Achievements:o Leading the team to secure more than $15mil research fundings in diagnostics innovations. o Lead in establishing strategic partnerships with:1. Tan Tock Seng Hospital- Communicable Disease Control Centre (CDC) to collaborate on infectious disease research,2. Waseda University (Japan) on chrono health, 3. QIAGEN (Germany-based MNC, world leading diagnostics company) on oncology research, 4. Also established research collaborations with other major hospitals and research institutes locally and overseas, including A*Star, National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Mundipharma (UK).

a) Giving lectures on microbiology, cell biology and techniques in diagnostics.b) Overall lead in development of case-based learning (CBL) pedagogy framework for Diploma in Biomedical Science (Biomedical Research Option). Created the framework of one year full time on job training in prominent industry partners to maximise students’ learning experience in biomedical research.c) Course chairman for Specialist Diploma in Microbiology, a CET course for upgrading existing workforce in hospitals. d) Laboratory Manager in managing nine Life Science labs, ensuring proper operations including systems and processes to ensure alignment to ISO requirements, budgeting, setting up and maintenance of biosafety level 2 facilities and procurement process. e) Senior Research Scientist in infectious diseases research.Achievements:i. Successful establishing CBL as one of the 3 key learning pedagogies in Singapore Polytechnic, with positive feedback received from industry partners, spanning from SMEs to MNCs such as GSK.ii. Successfully lead the team to obtain zero audit findings (ISO 9001, ISO 14001).iii. Lead In a lab initiative in converting 2 storerooms into a laboratory with full suite biosafety level 2 facilities. iv. Secured over $1mil of research funding. All projects completed with milestones met and 2 IPs filed.

Under Faculty of Medicine Achievements:i. Principal Investigator who secured with more than $1.5million external funding in the area of infectious diseases research.ii. Published more than 30 publications and book chapters since 2010.